Evolve

Evolve, the 2015 asymmetric shooter, presents an interesting stress profile for modern hardware. The combination of the Intel Core i7-14700F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti produces a dataset that clearly delineates the boundaries between CPU and GPU limitations across different resolutions and quality presets. The measured results show a system that is overwhelmingly powerful for this title, yet the scaling behavior reveals nuanced performance characteristics.

Resolution Scaling

The performance delta between 1080p and 4K is stark and diagnostic. At 1080p with Low settings, the system produces an average of 320.1 FPS. Moving to 1440p Low drops that to 214.4 FPS, a 33% reduction, while 4K Low yields 122.7 FPS, which is 61.7% lower than the 1080p result. This steep decline as resolution increases is the classic signature of a GPU-bound workload at higher pixel counts.

The scaling pattern changes dramatically with settings. At Ultra quality, the frame rate at 1080p is 136.9 FPS, which falls to 88.3 FPS at 1440p (a 35.5% drop) and then to 53.6 FPS at 4K (a further 39.3% drop). The consistent percentage reductions suggest that the RTX 5070 Ti is the primary limiter at Ultra settings across all resolutions, with its 16 GB of GDDR7 memory and 896.0 GB/s bandwidth being tasked heavily by the game's effects.

The Low preset data tells a different story. The jump from 320.1 FPS at 1080p to 214.4 FPS at 1440p is a 33% reduction, but the subsequent drop to 122.7 FPS at 4K is another 42.8% reduction. This indicates that even at Low settings, where the CPU has less work to do per frame, the GPU still becomes the bottleneck as pixel count increases. The fact that 1080p Low exceeds 300 FPS demonstrates that the i7-14700F's 20 cores and 28 threads are not holding the system back at lower resolutions, but the sheer pixel throughput required at 4K overwhelms the GPU's capabilities regardless of quality preset.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 Ti is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture part built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, featuring 45,600 million transistors on a 378 mm² die. Its 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 896.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is substantial for a game released in 2015. The GPU's base clock of 2295 MHz and boost clock of 2452 MHz, combined with 8960 shading units, give it a theoretical FP32 throughput of 43.94 TFLOPS.

In Evolve, the GPU's role becomes more pronounced as resolution increases. At 4K Ultra, the system achieves 53.6 FPS, which is the lowest measured result in the entire dataset. This suggests that the game's Ultra preset, likely featuring high-resolution textures and heavy post-processing, saturates the GPU's resources. The 72.2 FPS at 4K High shows that dropping from Ultra to High yields a 34.7% improvement, indicating that the Ultra preset includes effects that are disproportionately expensive on the GPU.

The GPU's benchmark scores position it competitively. Its Passmark G3D score of 32974 places it in the 87th percentile of all GPUs. The nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, has an average score of 52085, which is exactly 0% different from the RTX 5070 Ti's 52086 average. This parity suggests that in Evolve, the RTX 5070 Ti should perform nearly identically to the previous generation's flagship, and the measured FPS numbers confirm this is a high-end experience.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700F is a Raptor Lake Refresh part with 20 cores (8 performance and 12 efficiency) and 28 threads. It operates at a base clock of 2.10 GHz and can boost to 5.40 GHz. The CPU's 33 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel memory support for DDR4 and DDR5 contribute to its strong single-thread and multi-thread performance. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 35443 and single-core score of 5003 demonstrate excellent compute capability.

In Evolve, the CPU's role is most evident at 1080p with Low settings, where the system achieves 320.1 FPS. This high frame rate indicates that the i7-14700F can feed the GPU efficiently at lower resolutions. The CPU's Passmark single-thread score of 4261 and multi-thread score of 41765 show it has ample headroom for the game's AI and physics calculations, which are typically single-threaded in older titles.

The CPU's percentile ranking of 94 among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54097, places it just behind the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X (which scores 54450, a 0.6% delta) and the Ryzen 9 9900X3D (54681, a 1.1% delta). This closeness in synthetic benchmarks suggests that the i7-14700F is not a limiting factor in Evolve, as the game's engine likely does not utilize the full multi-threading capabilities that these modern CPUs offer.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the i7-14700F and RTX 5070 Ti ranks 145th out of 1695 tested combos in Evolve, placing it in the top 8.6% of all configurations. This rank is impressive given the game's age, as many newer titles would push this hardware harder. The high ranking indicates that this combo is overkill for Evolve, but the data shows it still provides a smooth experience at all settings.

The rank is likely influenced by the CPU's strong single-thread performance, as Evolve's game logic and AI routines from 2015 may not scale well across many cores. The i7-14700F's boost clock of 5.40 GHz gives it a significant advantage in lightly-threaded workloads, which is reflected in its Cinebench R15 single-core score of 504. The GPU's 87th percentile ranking also contributes to the overall high position, as the RTX 5070 Ti's raw rasterization power is more than sufficient for a game of this era.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete dataset reveals a clear hierarchy. At 1080p, the system delivers 320.1 FPS on Low, 247 FPS on Medium, 193.2 FPS on High, and 136.9 FPS on Ultra. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a 57.2% reduction in frame rate, which is substantial but expected given the quality difference.

At 1440p, the results are 214.4 FPS on Low, 165 FPS on Medium, 134 FPS on High, and 88.3 FPS on Ultra. The drop from Low to Ultra is 58.8%, slightly more pronounced than at 1080p, indicating that the GPU is becoming more stressed at the higher resolution.

At 4K, the numbers are 122.7 FPS on Low, 96.9 FPS on Medium, 72.2 FPS on High, and 53.6 FPS on Ultra. The Low to Ultra reduction is 56.3%, which is consistent with the other resolutions. However, the absolute values tell the key story: even at 4K Ultra, the system maintains 53.6 FPS, which is playable, and at 4K High it reaches 72.2 FPS, which is smooth.

The data reveals that the Medium preset at 1080p (247 FPS) outperforms the High preset at 1440p (134 FPS) by 84.3%, illustrating how resolution has a larger impact on performance than quality settings in this configuration. Similarly, Low at 1440p (214.4 FPS) is nearly identical to High at 1080p (193.2 FPS), showing that the system can compensate for resolution increases by lowering quality settings. The consistency of these results across all 12 measured configurations indicates a well-balanced system where neither the CPU nor GPU is severely bottlenecked at any given setting, though the GPU becomes the clear limiter at 4K Ultra with its 53.6 FPS result.